In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

Kentucky's longest operating jail is now a spooky spot to spend the night.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

At this farm in upstate New York, the former president plotted his reelection campaign.

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.